[3365] in Kerberos
Re: DES export to Europe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmie Young)
Thu Jun 2 22:37:03 1994
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 19:25:15 +0800
From: jdy@judith.jpl.nasa.gov (Jimmie Young)
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <ghvSBGqSMUw880ogJ6@transarc.com> (Lyle_Seaman@transarc.com)
>> US companies are required to get special licenses to export
>> software which may be used to encrypt data. It has little to do
>> with key length, and more to do with the security of the chosen
>> encryption method.
My understanding is that least part of the encryption export restrictions
does have something to do with key length. Specifically, methods using keys
of greater than 40 bits can not be exported. This naturally includes DES which
uses keys of 56 bits.
Just my $0.02...
Jimmie Young
jdy@judith.jpl.nasa.gov
